Madam Athlete
Madam Athlete
Embracing Change: How AI is Revolutionizing Podcasting and Professional Sports*
FRIENDS! AI came up with that title and it is hard not what I would have chosen for myself 🤣
*Alternative title (human generated): Taking the Time to Learn New Skills or Giselle F*s around with AI
AI generated episode description with [my comments] thrown in all over the place because, again, WTF AI?:
Ever wondered how AI is revolutionizing the podcasting landscape and professional sports? You're about to find out. [I mean, you're not. I talk about how we need to take time to learn new skills in our careers to make sure we're still developing and not staying stagnant. I talk abut how hard it is to overcome the inertia of doing things the same way you've always been doing things.] Join us as we share our personal experiences of how AI is impacting our podcasting business, from generating captions to crafting engaging content. If you've ever felt resistance in breaking away from established systems and processes, we’ll walk you through the importance of harnessing a growth mindset to embrace novel ideas. We even delve into the creation of a dot phrase, revealing how a little upfront effort can save you time in the long run. [Rest of this is true, and oh, Epic, what fun!]
Our conversations move from the world of podcasting to the arena of professional sports, as we reflect on how being open to new methodologies can be a game-changer. Remember that strength and conditioning coach who introduced blood flow restriction training 11 years ago? [Haha, yeah, do you remember that guy?? Probably not if you didn't work with me, but I do talk about how we integrate new knowledge and skills and the work settings that might make that easier or harder.] We discuss how such unconventional strategies can revolutionize athletes' performance. [Eh, not so much.] We also debate on the philosophical implications of AI and its potential to be the next big thing in knowledge enhancement and skill acquisition. [I mean I specifically said I didn't want to get the philosophical debate, but yes, I did talk about AI as potentially being the next evolution in knowledge enhancement.]
And that's not all! We also explore how AI can support women in sports and athletics, its usage in social media, and the challenges and excitement of using AI for generating podcast content. Ever thought of using a chatbot to come up with an engaging podcast episode title, intro music, or show notes? We did just that! [And I might be regretting it!] Listen in as we embark on our intriguing journey, allowing AI to create our podcast title [again, see regrets], show notes, and social media posts. Our discussions seek to inspire you to break away from inertia, embrace change, and upgrade your skills to soar in this AI-dominated era.
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Welcome to the Madam Athlete Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Giselle Aerni. I'm a sports medicine physician with a passion for teaching and a mission to support other women with careers in this space. On this show, you'll hear the stories from amazing women in their field of sport and athletics. They'll share their journeys, triumphs and hardships in order to help and inspire you in your own career and life. Thanks for joining us. Let's do this. Hello, and welcome back to another special episode of the Madam Athlete Podcast.
Giselle Aerni:On the second Tuesday of the month, I take a deep dive into a career-related topic, and today I'm talking about taking the time to learn new skills and my recent foray into artificial intelligence. Yeah, it's, we're going to just see how this all goes. Okay, so let's get into it. All right, here's the deal, folks. AI is everywhere. Have you been seeing this explosion that I have? It is in the news. You know teachers are getting students turning in essays. But it is in my business news. It is in my podcast feeds. People are talking about this constantly. My sister's fiancé works with machine learning and really absurdly nerdy and cool things, but so maybe I hear about it more than others or notice it more, but like I am hearing about it from my podcasting business people who are saying here's how I use AI to create my social media captions and here's how I use AI to help me with podcast content. And I'm just like, wait, what is going on in the world? And it's cool. And it's one of those things where I think that you know, I've been thinking about this a lot lately about learning new skills in our careers and how easy it is to fall into the inertia against learning new things because our system, the system, wants to stay the same. You want to stay where you're at, you have your processes, you know what you know and you want to just kind of keep doing the same old, same old thing. And there's this real struggle to push past that inertia to go learn something new, to come up with a new system, to try a new way of doing things, to learn a new software, to learn a new program, to learn a new piece of information. And some of it is just that you don't hear about it or know about it or know where to turn to, but some of it is just the inertia against that startup cost of trying to learn something new. So this is the actual, specific example that kind of really kicked all this off.
Giselle Aerni:I was talking to someone and for my lovely friends here who get to use electronic health records because we love them and they all have, you know something similar to this. But if you used Epic, then you'll know the dot phrase, which is just like your quick text. So you have created a whole physical exam, a whole injection procedure, note, whatever you're doing, and then you're just typing in dot, whatever your you know knee injection, and then it just you only had to put in that much information, but then your entire knee injection template auto fills into the note. And so you know I am not sponsored by Epic, but so all these ones have something similar to this right and I see this over and over and over again where people are like they don't, they're not willing to take the time to create a new dot phrase, and that time might be 15 seconds, like it might be 10 seconds, it might be copying the injection note that you just wrote, right clicking and clicking something that looks like save as a new dot phrase and giving it a title. Like that might be literally all it takes to create a new dot phrase, but it just has this barrier of feeling like, oh my God, I don't have time. I don't have time to like, stop right now and make that dot phrase and do this, and so you just keep going on at your same old. This is what I know how to do, and what happens is it might have taken you three seconds to stop and make that dot phrase. It could have taken you 15 seconds, it could have taken you a minute. You know if we're talking about other things besides dot phrases. It could take you 10 minutes, 15 minutes, hours. But if it's something that you're doing all the time or if it is something that is going to save you time, those three seconds that you stopped and did that, that minute that you stopped and did that, is going to save you minutes upon minutes, upon minutes upon minutes, because you actually use that dot phrase, that note, so frequently that if you just took the time and just made that dot phrase, you would have just saved yourself in the future self. This current self is like God, dang it, I gotta take some time to do. This Future self is like gosh, this is so easy. Thank goodness I did that and I feel like it's like this with learning things too right.
Giselle Aerni:So I use Auphonic to edit my podcast episodes, and it's just some. It's a free software. Thank you, Auphonic. Again, zero sponsorships happening over here. But it is, I know, like six basic things in this platform, like maybe six things that I use. And I'm also using an old version of it because in my brain, this startup cost of upgrading to the new one and trying to figure out more, better or fancier features just feels insurmountable, which is absurd. Like I'm also the person who, when my iPhone is like hey, there's a new update, I used to just refuse to update it. I was like I know where things are, I know how the buttons work, I know how things look. Please don't change this on me. And I am working on changing my mentality about that Because you know, and you have been here before I have talked about having that growth mindset and being open to new things, learning new things, reminding yourself that you don't have to be perfect.
Giselle Aerni:I don't have to understand Auphonic software immediately if I upgrade it. I just have to, like, get started. I just have to go, take a look at it and know that I will figure it out and I will learn it, and maybe it won't be easy. Maybe it will be easy. Maybe it's one of those things that you're like oh my God, why did I not do this sooner? And you just want to kick yourself in your own ass about it, right? So, thinking about in our careers, what are those things where there's a potential new skill you could be learning, but you are holding yourself back from taking the time to learn it, partially because of inertia, partially because of that startup cost, partially because you're like I have no time. I have no time, even though maybe it's something that will actually help you save time in the future.
Giselle Aerni:And the other thing I think about in this career setting is what is your setting? What is your system? I think about this all the time. Having been a former fellowship director and teacher too. I mean I'm still in the academic kind of setting now with this new, one of the new roles that I have. But I'm also in this sort of outpatient private practice role and seeing things from this other side, and I've always wondered when I was in the academic teaching fellowship setting. New information is flying at me all the time. I'm not having to go hunt it down, it is just coming at me, and part of it is just that setting of I'm teaching new fellows, I am going what is the latest and greatest? How are we upgrading, what are we doing? And that could just be a mindset that anyone has.
Giselle Aerni:But I always wondered for people who weren't in that kind of academic setting where we're having weekly journal clubs, we're having weekly whatever's like what are you doing? To kind of this sounds like shade. I'm making this, I'm attempting to make this no shade, but like, how are you keeping up with the latest and learning the newest things about your field when it's kind of all on you right, when I'm in the academic setting, it's happening around me and I'm just plopped right in the middle of that system and in that setting. But if you're out private practice, if you are in, if you're a high school athletic trainer and you're the only one and you're not in a group or have a community of athletic trainers, how are you keeping up with your skills and are you taking the time for that? Are you kind of going out and getting after it because it's not coming into you? I mean, and I'll say also in the world of sports that we're all in, often even being in that academic setting does not mean that I am any faster at trying new things.
Giselle Aerni:Sometimes it means that we're slower right.
Giselle Aerni:Cause. Academics, we're stodgy and we are like, well, I don't know. Let me see all of your evidence before I'm even willing to consider this. And in the world of sports, our elite athletes, they're pushing the envelope, they are trying to be cutting edge, trying to see whatever they can do, and we are often much farther behind. And some of this becomes right. There's issues of just bias, of if I don't have my like white Western medicine, like background about this, then I just think it's absurd. And so there can be, you know, cultural biases happening there. But there can also just be that have we built up that body of knowledge? No, then no, thank you, I'm not even willing to consider this.
Giselle Aerni:I specifically recall okay, gosh, this must have been like 11 years ago, I'm guessing. 11 years ago I was team position at UConn and I was the interim head team position at the time and we had a new football strength and conditioning coach. Was it football, was it basketball? I should know. A decade ago feels forever, I don't even remember. But we had a new strength and conditioning coach and he comes in and is like great, I want to do blood flow restriction training on the athletes and myself and the head athletic trainer are like excuse me what? And he goes.
Giselle Aerni:well, I want to cut off circulation into a body part and then work it out, and we are just like what? You want to... I'm sorry, you are saying you would like to cut off blood flow? Am I hearing you correctly? You want to restrict blood flow to a body part and then just try to work it out? I mean, hell no. What are you doing? That's completely insane. Absolutely no to that.
Giselle Aerni:Like both of us, we were just like what is he on? What is this? And you know, 11 years later, like we have all sorts of evidence about blood flow restriction training and how it can be used and how it can be beneficial, and especially in rehab, or older folks right, and it's this like Really well studied things but our initial gut reaction was like what, no, you crazy
Giselle Aerni:strength and conditioning coach.
Giselle Aerni:What are you doing, bringing this nonsense in here? And really, he was just out of the curve and he was just like here's the cutting edge, here's what people are trying and having success at, and you know, it takes people doing weird things and trying it and having success at it before we start to study it and before we start to build our data. So I always think about this when I'm thinking about, in our careers within, especially sports, especially sports medicine, how are we keeping up with new information, how are we keeping up with new skills and how are we incorporating new information into what we already know? Right, you see this and sort of like Old time docs who are just like back in my day, right, like there's so much that I say that all the time. So I'm one of the, I'm part of the problem, but you have people who have just clearly not updated to the latest information.
Giselle Aerni:I also remember another time where I was starting at a new, I was going to cover a new high school, new to me, and I met with the athletic trainer, and you guys know that I love athletic trainers and my like work doesn't exist without them and or you, if you're an athletic trainer listening hi, I think you're phenomenal, and this is truly the only athletic trainer that I was ever like when did you come?
Giselle Aerni:from, and this guy is very friendly. He had a CSCS and he was much more focused on the strength and conditioning side. If I'm honest, I think that was like he was keeping up his knowledge and the strength and conditioning side because that was what was fascinating to him. But he was not keeping up On the athletic training side of things. And so I'm meeting him, we're talking blah, blah blah, getting to know each other, going over what are our concussion protocols. He tells me how he has, he sends you know if a kid has a concussion in a game and a practice, whatever. He has this whole sheet that he gives to the parents of what they should do, what they should expect, including that they should wake them up every two hours Overnight so they don't die in their sleep. And I laughed because I thought he was joking and he was not joking, he was doing this.
Giselle Aerni:He was telling the parents to wake their kids up every two hours and I oh my gosh, we had to have a moment Of well me apologizing for laughing because it wasn't funny and Reeducating, and trying to get on the same page. But I just thought, like well, here's a guy who cares about his athletes, loves what he's doing, is a little loving the strengthening more than the athletic training, but he really does care about the athletes and he just doesn't know the latest, and so that that has also been one of the things that has stuck with me to go this is something I better. I don't want to fall into this trap. I don't want to go well, I know what I know and I'm good, I already know everything, or you know. That's too hard for me to figure out, so I'm just not going to try. I'm just gonna stick with what I know.
Giselle Aerni:So, coming back around to this AI business, it has just been everywhere and I have thoughts. Okay, here's what I think. I know there's a whole philosophical debate. I'm not interested in getting into it. I think that it can be a tool. I think it's likely. Potentially it is just the next iteration, right, if we think back Twenty years ago, forty years ago, you know part of old timey doctors being like why was on call every other day and I was like, well, cool, did you have four drugs and was there anything else you were able to do?
Giselle Aerni:no, like okay so you had your drugs memorized, you had all your facts memorized and there was nothing else you could do because we just didn't know other things. And so I don't know if I'm explaining as well, but I think that, like early stage, hundred years ago, you could memorize some multiplication tables and you know, and that was that. And then we used to slide rule because you know I'm nerdy about math and then we got calculators and it didn't become Right. Like you need to understand the math that's going behind it so that you can effectively use your calculator. Or you're just punching in numbers. You have no idea what you're doing and there's a clear difference between people who know what they're doing and people are just punching in numbers. And I think that you know.
Giselle Aerni:In medicine now, part of the training is not just are you memorizing these facts, but it actually is do you know where to go look up the facts? Do you know how to put this information together and do a research lit search? Do you know how to use Google? I mean, like if I do a Google search on a medical topic, guaranteed I am getting back better results than somebody who has not been to med school and residency and fellowship Just guaranteed because I know what I'm looking for. I have the language to put in that will get me the results that I want. When I get the results, I know how to interpret them because I can look at the references that they're coming from. I can look at what they're talking about and go does this fit in with what else I know about medicine? And so it's not that Google's doing the work for me. I am the one who had to put in the right information to Google to get a useful answer out of it.
Giselle Aerni:And I see AI as potentially being the next step of. It's not just about memorizing the facts, it's not just about knowing where to look up the information. It's about knowing how to train an AI machine chat bot, whatever to do the work that I want it to do. That is up to my standard, that gets me the results that I want, that I can then interpret and make sure and confirm that that is correct. So I feel potentially hopeful about it and I like to think about it in a hopeful way instead of like a old man, get off my lawn this new fangled contraption kind of way, because my brain likes to be get off my lawn and so I need to kind of encourage it to be growth mindset, try new things, let's go, and I want to make sure that I am taking advantage of things that can save me time and stress, even if there is that upfront time and stress to figuring them out. So my original plan for this episode which you guys will be grateful that I did not follow through on, but my original plan was to have this whole episode scripted by AI.
Giselle Aerni:And then I gave it a whirl and I will tell you that I'm currently not putting in the greatest search terms, I'm currently not putting in the greatest prompts, or it's just like you know, maybe, maybe AI doesn't really understand women who work in sports. Let me be honest, that could also be. It's like what is this? So I have some examples because I thought this was fun, just to see. Like, what did I come up with?
Giselle Aerni:So I first asked chat GPT. I said write a 15 minute podcast episode for a podcast that focuses on women working in sports and athletics, on how they can use AI to support them in their careers. And it gave me an episode title leveraging AI for women in sports and athletics. It gave me intro music. It said I was the host. It suggested highlight reels. It also fake made up guests. It suggested I have an athlete and a. What else did it say the athlete? Oh, a sports scientist's name. It said here, come up with a sports scientist. And so it was like here's your, here's your guess. A marketing, a sports marketing expert. And it was talking.
Giselle Aerni:This initial one was just talking about how to use AI technology with data for training. It was saying I could do that. It was with fan engagement. I could use chatbots to engage with fans to answer questions. I could do help it make live commentary. The sports scientist guest fake guest talked about wearable sensors collecting data on movements. So it was like well, this sounds all very fun, but it's not clearly what I was trying to get after.
Giselle Aerni:And then I asked if they could create an episode that is, a solo episode focusing on women sports medicine physicians, athletic trainers and sports psychologists, to try to be a little more like who am I talking to and how they use AI to improve their careers and personal development. And so then it got into things and it says like some really fun stuff, like it goes welcome to a special solo episode of. And it just made up a podcast name, the podcast that celebrates the incredible journey of women in the world of sports and athletics. I'm your host. Insert your name and today we're. Which is Giselle? Hi, if you're here, welcome. This is me. And today we're diving into a fascinating topic how women in sports medicine, athletic training and sports psychology are harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to elevate their careers and personal development. Well, like that sounded pretty cool, right. So like they also, but they still kind of gave me this let's focus on athletes performance metrics, let's use wearables, let's do this. And it was not really about personal career development. And so I tried again and I was like, okay, but how can a woman working in sports use AI to help her advance in her career? And so they tried to do this again and a lot of this was just really just generic. If you use AI, you can master new techniques, gain insights from data analysis, stay ahead of industry trends. This not only boosts your confidence, but also showcases your commitment to excellence. So it was trying, but it was not getting close to what I was attempting to do, but it was. It was kind of fun to play with and see how it worked.
Giselle Aerni:And then this other platform that I use sometimes for the social media. It has, like, photos and captions and things. You guys know that I kind of hate social media. I'm actually terrible at using this platform. I pay for it every month and I barely do anything with it, so I should work on that. That's one of my old man, cranky, get off my lawn failings.
Giselle Aerni:So I asked this to create a script to help me teach women working in sports medicine about how to learn and use AI to help them in their career development. That's the prompt that I gave it, and it gave me this kind of awesome. So this was like you could pick templates and I picked a video script because this is again focused on social media. And so it gave me a caption, a power empower yourself in sports medicine with the help of AI. Let's dive into how you can harness the power of technology to boost your career development. It gave me hashtags, it gave me like an intro, it set scenes for me. It gave me the like captions. It talked about how. What is AI, how I can use AI, how I can learn about AI, how I can, you know, use AI powered solutions like LinkedIn and other professional forums to connect with mentors and fellow professionals, so it seemed like it was understanding this professional development piece, which I I liked, and so this yeah, this one did a much better job at trying to fine tune and get after what I was asking it to do. So I don't know, this has been fun.
Giselle Aerni:I will say that I had completely unrealistic expectations I had after seeing this Social Curator video. That's the software that I'm using for a social post that, like I just said, I basically don't even use it. But their new AI, they call it Dottie, and I watched a video on it because I was like I should learn about this. It's everywhere, let me learn about it.
Giselle Aerni:I watched this video on it and it was kind of mind blowing the way that it was like oh, Dottie, create me an Instagram post about my, because this is for entrepreneurs. It's targeted towards mainly women and a lot of them have businesses that are like they might sell a product, like a candle business. So it was like create an Instagram post about my new candle vanilla candle that will help people feel relaxed. And it just popped out this incredible Instagram post with hashtags, with emojis, like it was just I was like, whoa, damn, that was awesome. And so I had had my husband use it for his US Steinholding Association business and I was like you should check this out. And he did it with ChatGPT and it was fantastic. He was like create a post for this steinholding event that's happening to let people know about it. And it was incredible.
Giselle Aerni:So I think I had these wildly outsized expectations that I would be like, hey, write me a podcast post, write me a podcast episode all about using AI and your professional development and it would just magically be perfect and incredible. And it really was not. It really was not at all. It wasn't close, and so some of that could be me trying to figure out how to get more specific, could also be just where it is at and what it is capable of, and it's not capable of the fine tune nuance yet. So we're gonna keep learning and keep working with it, but it was really fun and hysterical to try.
Giselle Aerni:And then, after I finished recording this episode, Buzzsprout, which is the platform that I use to host my podcast. This is where the podcast lives behind the scenes, so that then it gets pushed out to Apple Podcasts and to Spotify or to wherever you're listening. But so Buzzsprout hosts the podcast and they have developed an AI, because truly everyone has developed AI. It is everywhere. So they have this program co-host AI. That will theoretically. When I finish this episode and I upload it to Buzzsprout, they are gonna give me title suggestions for the episode, they will do a transcription with suggested chapter markers which will give me suggested subheadings, they will do a show notes, they will give me a blog post and give me all of this stuff, and so I'm very curious and I'm gonna give it a whirl and see how it goes. Oh, it also has social media posts.
Giselle Aerni:It said that you could use for the episode. You guys know how much I don't love social media, so if it's coming up with good post captions.
Giselle Aerni:We might be making some changes around here and let some AI do this work for me, but, as you guys are listening to this, you've already seen the show title. You've already seen the show notes, the little episode description I literally have not. I have no idea what it's gonna come up with, but I am gonna use it. This is my current promise guarantee that I'm just gonna use one of the titles it comes up with straight up. I might make edits to the show notes, I might make edits to the blog poster, to whatever, but I will just, I'm just gonna do it. I'm just gonna commit right now, even though you've already listened to this whole episode. I don't know what the title is, but I don't know what it is. So I'm committing to using one of the titles and we're gonna see how this goes. So I am curious for you if you've played around with AI, just because this is fascinating, it's everywhere and I'm ready to learn more about it. I'm not good at it, but we're growth mindsetting and we are going to figure out how this can help me in my career and give it a chance, because I think it's really important to be learning new skills and to take the time to learn the new skills and to go. This is important. I need to figure this out for myself, for my career, for my future. So let's just take that little extra 15 minutes right now and dive into this and see what happens. So I'm gonna do it. Have you done it? I wanna know if you have any skills or tips or tricks or things. Please share, and I would love to hear from it. Okay, so this is it. Take your time to learn, play with AI or don't play with AI. Take whatever time to learn whatever you want to learn. It is important to you, but you know, report back, let me know how it goes. Thank you for listening to the Madam Athlete Podcast. I hope you enjoyed today's career coaching deep dive all about taking the time to learn new skills and my personal experience dipping my toes into this whole AI thing.
Giselle Aerni:I literally still do not know what episode title or show notes or social media posts will be coming along with this episode after I let AI pick them. I'm completely nervous and excited and you have already seen them. So you have the inside scoop and I hope they're great. That's no idea. If you love this podcast which you should, because it's awesome. It would be so helpful if you would leave a five star rating and review. You could also share this episode with a friend. That would be great. You're the freaking best, as always. Thanks for being here. I appreciate you.